I’m on my second pair of Specialized Defrosters. These are 3 years old, previous pair lasted 7 or 8. Completely waterproof and warm enough for me in all but the most extreme conditions.

+1 to the above, exactly the same experience with two pairs of defrosters, down to the timescales.

Forekasters 30 an end from Freewheel.co.uk sorted.

The description sounds like the sound my shower makes when it needs bled, often if the system has been drained.

I need to turn the power off, take the shower head off and lower it, then let water flow through the hole system till bubbles stop. I have a rubber valve thing I can press to let this happen. Can you do similar?

I’ve done it, mostly would echo all said above.

I’d add tho to be clear it’s not “your day off” it’s “a day you don’t work” or outside your hours, whatever. Language is important, if people see it as “time off” they’ll assume you’re not busy and can do “just a quick thing” etc.

For me it was to help with childcare, so people knew it wasn’t that I “had Fridays off” but it was “IA looks after his son Fridays”.

Put the ikons on the Occam, tubeless and try it out on a dryish day. If that gives the feel you want, you know that wheel changes can do it and it’s not just the bike.

Once you know that, some fastish tyres setup tubeless. There is way more weight to be saved in tyres on those wheels than in the wheels themselves. But that said, weigh the wheels when they’re bare whilst you’re swapping tyres, it’ll let you know for sure.

I did a set like this recently, I know it’s radical – but I just went on the shimano site and read the manual, it has pictures and everything.

Have bought about 30 machines from there, all fine.

Specs can be a bit random, sometimes not specs you can normally buy which is nice. The stock updates at 1500. Look to be saving about 20-40% off retail for a higher end spec, higher end of that you’ll need to wait for one of their discount codes (always worth checking)

Not seen anyone else mention it, but if your core is warm/hot then your arms and hands etc stay warmer. So for the elder child perhaps a down/synthetic gilet? If her body is a bit hot, her hands will stay warm.

Also spare gloves in a ziplock bag, in case originals get wet.

(Advice applies to adults too, I prefer riding in thinner gloves which is ok if my core is warmer)

Jersey pockets will be marginal,

Not had a problem there.

Pro max here, love it. Came from a Xs but had a 6S+ in the past. I am big tho.

I like the 2.5 tele (on the Xs in 2 years 47% of my pics were with the tele) – wanted the tele so had to be pro.

Battery, screen obviously ace.

Video is phenomenal, really the big camera step up more so than stills.

Stills vs my Xs, I notice better low light (night mode and shorter exposures) and the newer smart HDR is more subtle (better).

Ultra wide is nice to have but I prefer teles in general, but that’s a personal preference.

It’s heavy but that’s fine. I don’t use a case.

Bear my “it’s great and I love the camera” in mind against:
– I’m big (6’4” so phone not so big for me)
– I made cameras for a living (effectively) so I care about and notice cameras.
– I’d had a plus before.

That all said, buy from Apple you’ve 14 days to return it.

After a day or so you pick up the old phone and think “what is this, a phone for ants?”

That said I am 6’4” so maybe a big phone is just in proportion for me…

Got a button for picture format (zoom/fill etc) try pressing that some.

For me, a variant on GTD really helps, you can google it, and do it with apps (I use omnifocus) or just pen and notebook, but the key parts for me if you worry is this:

– When you think about something (to do, or think about, or check up on). Note it immediately (so an app, or note on your phone is good, as it’s always there).
– Once a week, at a regular time, review your list. Remove irrelevant stuff, do anything you can do in a couple minutes right then, leave everything else to roll over.

The key thing is the habit of regular review. If you note the thing, and know that you’ll review it (cos you always do) it lifts some of the weight.

The bonus is, if you find yourself with 10/20/60 mins during the week, you can think “i’ll just open my list and do a few items on it”, which helps you feel instantly productive knowing stuff is getting done.

A warning – the list will grow infinitely, it’s worth occasionally deleting stuff that’s been there a while. After all, if it has, it’s not immediately important and you can always re-add it if you find it comes up again.

Depends on the nipples you use, but 1mm normally fine IME.

On onedrive – it’s filesync, not backup. It’s not incremental and one-way, and there’s only limited versioning.

Just be aware of the limitations, and downsides of that vs. true backup.

With the caveat that I don’t use it on windows (but I believe it’s supported) I’ve found Backblaze excellent and reasonably priced.

No, but how about power line adapters? £20-30 will get you a decent enough pair, you don’t need big bandwidth for a printer.

Look at the wholesale tool for your line:

https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL

Anyway, if you can get “full fibre”/FTTP that’s a new line, so you’ll get up to 900Mbs depending where you are.

Geekbench results are stating to show up

Yeah though it’ll be interesting to see some benches that are long enough to hit the thermal limits, geekbench is a quick benchmark, it won’t throttle much if at all.

bootcamp won’t work on the M1’s initially at least.

It’ll never run, and you can’t* run a x86 VM either.

*technically, you might be able to spin up a qemu backed vm to do it, it’s possible on other ARM machines, or you might be able to fudge something with rosetta, but I’d not want to be relying on a M1 mac to run x86 windows software I needed to earn money.

I’m a mac user for preference at home, and had the benefit of spec’ing my own work machines. Used PC for work, as you couldn’t get powerful enough macs but also PCs for regular laptop use.

Anyway, as a mac user – look at the XPS 13 if you want small and light, or the 15 if you want power. The 17 maybe if you want a huge screen in thin-and-light but it’s a bit of a tea tray (though if you have fond memories of the 17″ powerbook this is the nearest modern equivalent).

Cant’ work out the scale of these, are you making the world’s most niche single speed for travel and these are some home-made S&S couplers? ;)

Random alternative suggestion, tell them you’ll keep the clause in but the price drops 10k (or whatever) as the price of you taking their risk.

+ 1 for Unifi setup and the AC lites.

Plus if you ever want e.g. outdoor wifi, easy to add an outdoor AP to the same system.

Sounds like you might be buying some sort of “enterprise” or “business” software…

They need the details so they can send you a PDF with no extra info in it, then you can contact them again to set up a meeting with them where 12 people will appear to consider your needs and payment plan, then submit your details to be on their system so they can invoice you. At which point you can raise the PO, get the invoice generated then call them up to pay it over the phone with a card as your PO doesn’t match their invoice format.

Or similar.

As someone else that also had/had both, the pros for sure.

Not just for the noise cancellation but also the transparency mode – which lets you hear like they’re _not_ in. The regular airpods aren’t great on transit cos they’re not a tight isolating fit, so you hear a lot of background noise and they don’t go that loud. For walking around a city, or trains/planes I find the pros so much more usable. With the regulars I used to also carry a set of rubber tipped Sennheiser in-ears for noisier environments.

Also having got a high end jabra in-ear set for work, it made me appreciate how good value the pros are compared to the competion!

I’m also 6’4″, not been on a jeffsy but I’d be looking at the XXL.

It’s a mass produced bike. Not something custom. At our height, we’re in the top percentile. If the XXL isn’t for us, who are they making it for? When did you last see someone taller than you? Not often, i’ll wager, I know I don’t.

Is it a flat load area with seats out?

I looked at a regular one, before the XL came out. Looked like it went flat, but that was worse for me. You lose the drop into the footwell, which due to my stature and size of bikes, need to get my bikes to fit (i turn the bars nearly 90 and drop the front wheels into the rear footwell). If you turn the bars on a flat floor, with big 29ers the bars hit the roof, so it doesn’t work. I think bikes would fit with no/less turning in an XL so that would be ok, but you couldn’t get XLs when I was car shopping.

Very disappointed citroen salesman, think he thought he had a sure sale as I asked him to call me soon as he had the new shape in. He did, i came in, took a look in the back and went “nope, no good. Call me back when you have the XL.” – sad faced salesman. Called me back when they eventually did, but by then I’d bought a BMW – he sounded pretty dejected!

That said, the XLs do look good, one might have been a contender. But then you’re also looking at Caddys and the like. Though I don’t like their driving position for a tall person, clout my ankles on the seat rails and feel like I’m sat behind the B pillar.

When I bought my 2009 (so the generation you’re looking at when it was nearly new) I drove the 90 petrol, 75 and 90 diesel.

The 90 petrol and 75 diesel are ok with just you in it and a bit of stuff, add any serious load or extra people at you want at least the 90 diesel IMO.

+1 for rhino.

Great product, and great company to deal with. When through no fault of theirs I needed to swap a liner they sorted me out.

We did both and rewire first for sure. But we planned the kitchen before the rewire. So I guess rewire second? Fit kitchen third.

Messy job, as above. Though ours needed chased in EVERYWHERE as all the existing wiring was in white plastic conduit on the walls. Yup. All of it.

I have some 75e from work and some personal AirPods pro.

The 75e make the AirPods seem even better for the money (if you’re on Apple kit). The jabra are mince in comparison (particularly the noise cancelling). That said I do use the jabra for work calls, as I have a lot of calls and don’t want to hose my personal airpod’s battery.

For music the jabra aren’t worth it, for calls they’re decent but if it was my own money I’d spend less, say the 65 as suggested.

What are the realistic pressure drops? I’m upwards of 90kg sans kit with zero talent and yet have no problem running 28psi with tubes for all sorts of riding including rocky stuff

I’m 90kg and as others say, depends on the tyre. That said I’d run dual ply high rollers at 25psi on the DH bike back when I used tubes. Just switching like for like to tubeless high rollers also at 25 psi – the tyres roll better and grip better. I’d only drop the pressure in bad wet weather for my DH setup.

That said I also can get away with 25psi on 5-600g XC tyres on the XC bike, I’d be at 35 to avoid punctures with tubes.

I don’t have one, but was looking – the velospace XT 2 bike has a 3rd bike extension. You can use it with their back box and also the 3rd bike rail to get box + bike.

Are you tall? I am (6’4”) and certain combos of skoda seat and/or roof don’t fit me well. Golfs are all fine.

Boot is bigger in the skoda – if you have buggies for kids to fit, might go long ways where it won’t in a golf (which can make a lot of difference).

The Leon suspension comment above – higher end ones get nicer rear suspension.

Problem I might have with mobile fitters is I don’t have a drive, I’d need somewhere to go to fit it. Though I can maybe borrow the use of a drive.

Those Atera do look ace – problem I have is storing it.

I’ve seen the buzz rack e-scorpion 2 that‘d fit under my stairs, but a 3 bike capable rack would be better for when my son needs a bigger bike that’ll need to go on a rack.

I don’t want a setup that’s too draggy for riding a few miles on road to the local trails but at the same time I want something that can handle Enduro-esque descents

I run a vigilante on the front, tough/sticky one. It is very draggy. Also very grippy, but not what you want I think.

The thinner tough light ones are ok for rolling, but I think a nice compound high roller rolls as well or better, and grips better. The vigilante will last longer though. Especially for your riding, i’d be preferring a nice rubber in a shape that rolls, rather than a harder rubber in a shape that doesn’t roll (which is what a vigilante give you).

That said, there’s not a lot in it – but I looked at my vigilante the other day about to go for a ride, and took another bike instead! Though i’m a bit unfit at the moment.

Boona Boona in Bristol do a good decaf:

https://boonaboona.co.uk/

Makes good iced coffee too.

Does the UniFi have a dedicated backhaul? If not I don’t really see how it’s an upgrade over the Orbi

It’s potentially a massive upgrade – unifi setups scale to 1000s of APs and many more clients, backhaul is up to 10GbE in some of the kit. Though for a home setup it’s more about wired GigE backhaul and choice of APs appropriate to use case. E.g. you can get outdoor units, directional units, varying wifi, range and capacity spec stuff. Think of it like the hifi separates of networking.

On the powerline stuff – IME it’s good for about 1-200Mbps. Tenda PH6 are good for a cheap (~£35) wired ethernet option with a pretty high performance chipset. Don’t believe the headline bandwidth numbers (here’s a good set of benchmarks on powerline: https://specklepattern.wordpress.com/2019/12/28/powerline-networking-2019-g-hn-versus-homeplug/ )

(FWIW my setup is unifi + wired connections, on a gigabit FTTP setup, hence I care about the bandwidth as I can use it)